Every two weeks, Big Issues focuses on newly released comic books of significance. This week, they are Doctor Strange #384 and Thanos #15. Written by Donny Cates (God Country, Redneck) with art by Gabriel Hernandez Walta (Magneto, The Vision) and Geoff Shaw (Buzzkill, God Country) and colors by Jordie Bellaire (Magneto…

As part of TV and movie producer’s ongoing quest to adapt every superhero ever for the screen, Jim Starlin’s Dreadstar is coming to television. According to Deadline, Universal Cable Productions has teamed with the production company Benderspink to turn the adventures of the acclaimed comic book creator’s sci-fi hero…

Superhero comic books descend from the pulps. That is, they are a product of a massive surge in genre fiction produced in the early decades of the 20th century. Look at your favorite superheroes today, and you can still see the traces of this lineage. It’s not as if fantasy, science-fiction, or detective stories…

Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were five years into their 107-issue run on Fantastic Four when they introduced Galactus and his herald, the Silver Surfer, in 1966’s Fantastic Four#49. FF in the mid-’60s was all about pushing boundaries, inventing whole worlds out of fresh cloth for every new storyline. The previous…